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Kids march for Family Focus

About 50 people -- youngsters from Family Focus programs and their adult supporters -- marched through part of Evanston's west side late this afternoon to back efforts to save the facility.

The event, organized by Dear Evanston and the Evanston Cradle to Career initiative, is a response to news that the Family Focus organization has decided to sell the former Foster School building because it can no longer afford to maintain it, although the non-profit says it hopes to continue its programs in Evanston as a tenant in the building.

Some local residents have organized an effort to purchase the building, which, at the requests of activists, was recently designated an Evanston landmark.

About the middle of the march route, the youngsters stopped for ice cream at the C&W Market at 1901 Church St.